Following a formal complaint from the European Commission about Microsoft's failure to live up to its promise to offer Window users a browser choice screen, Microsoft says it's sorry and attributes its 17-month period of non-compliance to a technical problem. "We take this matter very seriously and moved quickly to address this problem as soon as we became aware of it," Microsoft said in a statement.

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